We closed out the 2010s with another fantastic year at the archive. We saw 125 new and updated stories in 2019 and with them many great quotes and swoonworthy moments. We asked our members to name a few of their favorites in several categories, as well as to show recognition to their fellow MTTers. So without further ado, The 2019 Dundies!

Favorite Overall Fanfics

A Dollar Short by Comfect

A Little Rough by MadiDavis

An Education by Kuri333

An Exercise in Courage and Honest by NobleLandMermaid

Another White Dash by JennaBennett

Begin Again by SprinklesTheCat

Beyond the Horizon by agian18

Christmas Visitors by Duchess Cupcake

Cosa Nostra by Coley

Drunk Me (Can't Get Over You) by agian18

Engaged Ain't Married by Donnamour1969

Gorgeous by SprinklesTheCat

Groundhog Nights by Comfect

Hello My Old Heart by Duchess Cupcake

Here's a Hypothetical by Mel Like Mellow

High Hopes by JennaBennett

Holiday Rendezvous by NobleLandMermaid

How Not To by agian18

Journals of a Stay-at-Home-Dad by warrior4

Kind of Reckless by Coley

Living In Color by JennaBennett

More (Than That) by celluloiddreams

More Than a Day, More Than a Word by NobleLandMermaid

Morning After by Comfect

My Office Gave To Me by warrior4

Nice Morning Too by MadiDavis

Office Space by Comfect

Perfect Mess by JennaBennett

Restart by agian18

Ruin the Friendship by Duchess Cupcake

Safe and Sound by NobleLandMermaid

Say Something (I'm Not Giving Up On You) by agian18

Serendipity by Sam

Skin and Chips by Kuri333

Snaps by agian18

Stilettos and Broken Bottles (Spinning Around in Circles) by Coley

The Unflinchingly Rigid Rules of Jinx by Kuri333

This Thing Called Life by warrior4

This Year by JennaBennett

Trick me, treat me by Coley

Unwrapped by Coley

Valentine's Fairy Godfather by Kuri333

V-J Day by Comfect

When Pam Met Jim by Donnamour1969

Wishin' and Hopin' by Coley

You Me and the Sea by JennaBennett

Favorite Longer Fics (10k+ Words)

All Along it was a Fever by SprinklesTheCat

Beyond the Horizon by agian18

Cosa Nostra by Coley

Crazy Night in Philly by misery crush

Engaged Ain't Married by Donnamour1969

Groundhog Nights by Comfect

Hello My Old Heart by Duchess Cupcake

Here's a Hypothetical by Mel Like Mellow

How Not To by agian18

Kind of Reckless by Coley

Living in Color by Jenna Bennet

More Than a Day, More Than a Word by NobleLandMermaid

Notices by Comfect

Office Space by Comfect

Restart by agian18

Ruin the Friendship by Duchess Cupcake

Safe and Sound by NobleLandMermaid

Serendipity by Sam

Slow by agian18

Stilettos and Broken Bottles by Coley

The Romantic History of Jim Halpert by SprinklestheCat

This Thing Called Life by warrior4

Unwrapped by Coley

Waiting in the Sun by WishYouWould

When Pam Met Jim by Donnamour1969

Wishin' & Hopin' by Coley

You, Me and the Sea by JennaBennett

Favorite Shorter Fics/Oneshots (less than 10k words)

A Little Rough by MadiDavis

A Yoghurt Lid by impreciseotto

An Exercise in Courage and Honesty by NobleLandMermaid

And the World Turned by agian18

Another White Dash by JennaBennett

Begin Again by SprinklesTheCat

Chaotic Christmas by Coley

Christmas Morning by Donnamour1969

Drunk Me (Can’t Get Over You) by again18

High Hopes by JennaBennett

I heard your heart say love love love by JennaBennett

Morning After by Comfect

New Year's Eve by Donnamour1969

Nice Morning Too by MadiDavis

Perfect Mess by JennaBennett

Say Something (I'm Not Giving Up On You) by agian18

Second Place is just First Loser by Duchess Cupcake

Skin and Chips by Kuri333

Slow Dancing in a Burning Room by JennaBennett

Snaps by agian18

The unflinchingly rigid rules of jinx by Kuri333

This Year by JennaBennett

Trick You Treat Me by Coley

Valentine's Fairy Godfather by Kuri333

Favorite Fluffy Fanfics

Begin Again by SprinklesTheCat

Drunk Me (Can’t Get Over You) by agian18

Gorgeous by SprinklesTheCat

The Falls by warrior4

The Unflinchingly Rigid Rules of Jinx by Kuri333

This Thing Called Life (at the start and end) by warrior4

Valentine's Fairy Godfather by Kuri333

V-J Day by Comfect

Wishin' and Hopin' by Coley

You, Me and the Sea by JennaBennett

Favorite Angsty Fanfics

A Little Rough by MadiDavis

An Exercise in Courage and Honesty by NobleLandMermaid

Beyond the Horizon by agian18

Hello My Old Heart by Duchess Cupcake

How Not To by again18

Living in Color by JennaBennett

Restart by agian18

Ruin the Friendship by Duchess Cupcake

Safe and Sound by NobleLandMermaid

Serendipity by Sam

Stilettos and Broken Bottles by Coley

Unwrapped by Coley

Favorite Steamy Fanfic

Discovery by SprinklesTheCat

Kind of Reckless by Coley

Nice Morning Too by MadiDavis

Ruin the Friendship by Duchess Cupcake

Safe and Sound by NobleLandMermaid

Slow by agian18

Snaps by agian18

Stilettos and Broken Bottles by Coley

The Twelve Days of Smutmus by agian18, Coley, Duchess Cupcake

Trick Me Treat Me by Coley

Unwrapped by Coley

Favorite “Under the Radar” Fanficsgo show these and every fic you enjoy some love by reviewing and leaving jellybeans!

A Little Rough by MadiDavis

An Exercise in Courage and Honesty by NobleLandMermaid

Begin Again by SprinklesTheCat

Chaotic Christmas by Coley

Christmas Morning/New Year's Eve by Donnamour1969

High Hopes by Jenna Bennett

I heard your heart say love love love by JennaBennett

Say Something (I'm Not Giving Up On You) by agian18

Second Place is just First Loser by Duchess Cupcake

Through the Door by Awimoweh

Trick Me Treat Me by Coley

Favorite Moment in a Fanfic

Cosa Nostra by Coley - Pam adding, “do not fall in love,” to the list in the most rom-com trope-y move of all time

Groundhog Nights by Comfect - Karen getting hit by a truck but then is fine the next day

Hello my Old Heart by Duchess Cupcake - when Jim shows Pam his online profile. When she asks him when he became so fuckable. Jim's Raya account and Pam introducing Jim and Danny to each other

How Not To by again18: “Hi,” I started, closing my eyes and taking a deep breath. “My name is Pam Beesly. I’m an alcoholic. And I really, really don’t want to be one anymore.” and then she and Jim pour out their bottle of booze

I Heard Your Heart Say Love, Love, Love by JennaBennett - Michael holding the Team Pam sign in the window

Kind of Reckless by Coley - for burning the image of farmer Jim into my mind

Morning After by Comfect - Cutest Larisa Halpert

Office Space by Comfect - "And apparently he had mastered the art of talking and drinking through the same mouth at the same time (reportedly an ability they had gene-engineered into the inhabitants of Omicron Perseii VIII,"

Snaps by again - the moment it was published, “Come back here and f*** me like a real man", Pam daring Jim to come back and f*** her like a real man AND THEN his follow through, and did I mention Snaps? Just... all of Snaps.

Stilettos and Broken Bottles - Every word … Don't make me pick just one moment there

Unwrapped by Coley: “Can I kiss you?”, when it was finally updated after that Cliffhanger kiss

When Pam Met Jim by Donnamour1969: Pam and Jim dancing at Micheal's mother's birthday party

Favorite Reread/Discoveries of 2019

Cardiac Care by VampiricBlood

Error Code by Comfect

Fathers and Daughters, Women and Men by Stablergirl

I Know Where I Belong by callisto

I just wanted to be Famous by stablergirl

Layover by Annabel Winslow

My True Love Gave to Me by time4moxie

Observer Effect by GodInThisChilis

One Week After by NobleLandMermaid

Onterio by Talkative (especially in honor of Jim and Pam’s 10th wedding anniversary!)

Open by Annabel Winslow

Oracle Mom by time4moxie

Out of the Fog by Kat11

Real and Imagined by shutterbug

S-E-A-M by nomadshan

Shift by thirtypercent

Sneak Preview by Peskipiksi

Some Mornings by Duchess Cupcake

Taking a Chance by callisto

Talk by Annabel Winslow

The Best Dundies Ever by shan21

The Boy Next Door by onlyonekitchen

The Distance and the Damage by unfold

The Love Song of Squirrel McPants by time4moxie

The Paper Bride by nomadshan

The Trip by Little Comment

Truth and Consequences by shan21

Vanilla by Annabel Winslow

Visibility by callisto

Would you Still Love Me by Italian Food

Favorite Authors

Agian18

Celluloiddreams

Coley

Comfect

Dernhelm

Donnamour1969

Duchess Cupcake

JennaBennett

Kuri333

MadiDavis

NobleLandMermaid

Sam

SprinklesTheCat

warrior4

Most Improved Authors

Coley

Donnamour1969

Duchess Cupcake “for writing the smuts!” “Obsessed with everything she writes, but entering the world of smut with a threesome is just so Dundie-worthy.”

July 9th marks 13 years of MTT online, officially a teenager! And if you were hoping to get us something for our birthday, we have good news, our annual hosting funraiser is on now!

Our readers are the biggest reason we have been online this long and we again humbly ask for your support. Anything you can contribute is highly appreciated, and contributions of $10+ will earn you a small gift with PBnJ fanart. Full details on our funraiser can be found here .

If you want to help support the site AND buy yourself or a friend some sweet JAM merch, you can get prints, tote bags, mugs, phone cases and lots more at Ladama's RedBubble shop . Half of her July + August proceeds will go to the MTT hosting pot.

Long ago we asked our users to nominate stories and MTT members for for 2018 Dundie awards! Now that we’re halfway through the year, let’s go back in time and remember some of the best of 2018 (totally not because someone didn’t get their act together for 6 months! 😆)

And now the 2018 MoreThanThat Dundie Awards!

Favorite Overall Fanfics

After It Airs by Steph

Always One Foot on the Ground by Coley

Anywhere But Here by NobleLandMermaid

Crazy Night in Philly by misery crush

Invincible Summer by shutterbug

Letters, Numbers, and the Spaces Between by BigTuna

One Week After by NobleLandMermaid

Practical Magic by Coley

Restart by again18

Safe and Sound by NobleLandMermaid

Slow by agian18

Sociology 101 by BigTuna

Stay and Fight by BigTuna

the things that make us you and me by BigTuna

This Thing Called Life by warrior4

Unwrapped by Coley

Waiting in the Sun by WishYouWould

Wake Me Up by again18

Wherever I’m With You by Coley

Honorable Mention to Squirrel McPants by time4moxie (“I reread it 6 times in 2018 does that count?”)

Favorite Long Fics (10k+ words)

Always One Foot on the Ground by Coley

Anywhere But Here by NobleLandMermaid

Beyond the Horizon by agian18

Crazy Night in Philly by misery crush

Invincible Summer by shutterbug

Letters, Numbers, and the Spaces Between by BigTuna

One Week After by NobleLandMermaid

Practical Magic by Coley

Restart by again18

Safe and Sound by NobleLandMermaid

Slow by agian18

Sociology 101 by BigTuna

Terra Incognita by Comfect

The Explosion (and the aftermath) by SprinklesTheCat

the things that make us you and me by BigTuna

This Thing Called Life by warrior4

Unwrapped by Coley

Waiting in the Sun by WishYouWould

Wake Me Up by again18

Wherever I’m With You by Coley

Favorite shorter fics/oneshots (less than 10k words)

3:27 PM Sydney by BigTuna

After It Airs by Steph

Bears, Beets,...Beach? By dwangela

Black & White, Chocolate & Crème by again18

Chaotic Christmas by Coley

Christmas Castle by warrior4

Fourteen Voicemails left on the night of June 10th by elephantskeleton

If the Fates Allow by nqllisi

No Pain, No Gain by Rach3l

Nonverbal by BigTuna

Peppermint by dwangela

Stay and Fight by BigTuna

Some Mornings by Duchess Cupcake

Theirs by Duchess Cupcake

Yours by dwangela

Favorite Fluffy Fanfic

Chaotic Christmas by Coley

Crazy Night in Philly by miserycrush

Golden by dwangela

Expiration Dates by shutterbug

If the Fates Allow by nqllisi

It’s a Date by WishYouWould

Life's No Fun Without a Good Scare by Duchess Cupcake

Robe by BigTuna

The Supermarket at 2AM by Pan_Cake_Cats

Wherever I’m With You by Coley

Favorite Angsty Fanfic

Beyond the Horizon by agian18

False Claims by Rach3l

Hello My Old Heart by Duchess Cupcake

Restart by agian18

Safe and Sound by NobleLandMermaid

Sin Aesthetics by Rach3l

Slow by agian18

Stay and Fight by BigTuna

Theirs by Duchess Cupcake

Unwrapped by Coley

Wake Me Up by agian18

Yours by dwangela

Favorite Steamy Fanfic

Always One Foot on the Ground by Coley

Black & White, Chocolate & Crème by agian18

Crazy Night in Philly by miserycrush

House Call by Coley

It's a Date by WishYouWould

Nonverbal by BigTuna

Slow by agian18 7

Stay and Fight by BigTuna

Unwrapped by Coley

What it Looks Like by BigTuna

Favorite Moment in a Fanfic

After It Airs: Seeing Steph come back with a great Toby fic

Always One Foot on the Ground (Coley): “I want you to third date me.”

Always One Foot on the Ground: Jim explaining to Pam why he likes her green shirt and yes, Karen is pretty, but he doesn’t remember anything she wore. 😊

Beyond the Horizon (agian18): Pam being held together with duct tape and thinking about Jim not getting garlic bread

Again18 (“I look up to her writing and Slow with every chapter just got better and better.”)

BigTuna

Coley (comment: “I know she has written before but this is the first I’ve seen her work so it’s an improvement to me!”)

miserycrush

“Honestly me, misery crush, without this website I wouldn't be writing like I am or have the confidence to write with all the encouragement this website gives me.”

SprinklesTheCat

warrior4

Favorite reviewers

agian18

BecauseOfYou

Clover

Coley 2

Comfect

DoctorCinderella

DuchessCupcake

shutterbug

SprinklesTheCat

warrior4 (note from one nominator: “literally reviews every chapter, the date it is updated and is and amazing reviewer. Scared me at first not gonna lie, but talk me to take the pointers and make my story better which it has become.”)

Create your own Dundie category!

Story related

Best Baby Jam: Waiting in the Sun

Best “I really wanna hate what you did there but I’m too busy crying” Fic: Invincible Summer

Best Phone Steam: Always One Foot on the Ground

Best Unfinished: Hello Old Heart

Bravest Storytelling: Shutterbug for "Invincible Summer"

Cutest JAM Crazy Night in Philly

Most Creative AU (Real AU; not wildly canon divergent): No Pain, No Gain by Rach3l, Safe and Sound NLM, A Quiet War Comfect, Crazy Night in Philly miserycrush

Sexiest JAM: Slow

Stories from Left Field: False Claims, Always One Foot on the Ground and In Plain Sight.

Member related

Always Down to Chat: Warrior4

Better Late Than Never award: NobleLandMermaid (thank you friends 😆)

Best Beta: Because of You

Best Supporting Role in a Drunk Chat: Mr. Agian18 - I know this probably can't happen, but it still makes me laugh and deserves some sort of recognition

Bolt of Lighting Award for Coley for being a new writer at MTT this year, but one who writes great stories and reviews

Everyone's mom on the sidelines, waiting to give out a juicebox and a bag of carrots: Clover; Truly one of the kindest people in the fandom

Most Supportive Cheerleader/Mom on the Sidelines - Clover

ISO-9000 Canon Compliance award: warrior4

Most Creative JAM: Rach3l for her great occasionally supernatural AUs

Most Time Spent on a Guilt Trip to Get Others to Update - Duchess Cupcake, SprinklesTheCat, Merria

Now watch me WIP; now watch me Nae Nae award: agian18

Holy Water Award: again18

Honorary Einstein for Comfect for engaging stories that one quite often really has to pay close attention to in order to fully understand and insightful and helpful reviews.

Owning the Holiday Fic subgenre: Coley

Steamy Oneshot Queen: BigTuna (come back to us girl!)

The only reason I go on Twitter, a person who posts daily inspirations and lovelies about Pam and Jim – Pamelasjimothy (now pamelajimothy)

Website Queen: NobleLandMermaid

Thank you everyone who filled out a nomination form and congrats to all Dundie recipients!

For nearly 13 years MoreThanThat's focus has been Jim & Pam. But today we are announcing a big change. We will be shifting our focus to a different ship, someone we feel is Pam's true soulmate. No, not him. Not him either. Not her. Yes, it's Kelly's neighbor Alan! Pam + Alan, or "Pamalan" if you will. We will be rebranding as "Yeah, You Get It", a classic swoonworthy line from Alan.

You may be skeptical but here is evidence that this is Pam's true soulmate.

First off he's a cartoonist, so right away he and Pam have a ton in common. And he's serious about his art, he lives it, he even dreams in cartoons. Look at this pure talent flowing through him.

"Freedom Fries"? Topical! Truly this comic will be the next Doonsbury.

In 2018 we continued to see a revitalized MTT improve and grow! We introduced fans new and old to a variety of fics with our Month of Fic Recs, held our 2nd ever writing contest, brought fun Office content and graphics to our social media and more!

And last but certainly not least, for her chilling tale of Jim coming home only to find everything's changed, nqllisi gets the “Legit Spooky” Award.

Now to the winners!

This truly was a tough choice with so many great entries that we couldn't settle on just two, so we made the decision to have a runner-up in both the Readers and Mods choice. These two runner-ups will have a choice of a unique Office pin OR a JAM fanart print.

Thank you once again for everyone's entries, we hope you enjoyed the contest! We will be in touch with the winners via email for prize selection and with all writers for their participation prize choices.

Thanks all the writers who submitted to our 2018 Halloween Writing Contest, now it's time to decide a winner!

We have eight entries which you can find here:Halloween Writing Contest 2018. They are listed in alphabetical order by title and you can easily move from one entry to the next by clicking on the links found at the bottom of every story. Please read all the entries before making your decision! Once you have decided on your favorite, please vote here.

Voting is open until Wednesday November 14th, 11:59pm Pacific Time

What to know before voting:

Make sure you are registered on the archive, votes from non-members will not be counted

Every member gets ONE vote, no double registering or using multiple accounts to cast multiple votes!

If you are one the writers, you may vote but no voting for yourself. Your vote will be tossed if you do so.

This is a secret ballot, the contest authors and other users won't see who voted for whom. We ask that you refrain from stating which entry you voted for publicly, such as in reviews or in the shoutbox, while voting is open.

The Readers and Mods choices will be announced shortly after voting closes on Nov. 12th.

Some additional things:

* On the voting form, we ask you to match your favorite entries with it's key plot point. The 8 stories are all pretty unique so if you read the story, you should know which is which. Vote that don't match the story with the correct plot point won't count.

* The voting form has two optional fields for feedback, one regarding this contest and one asking about a potential Christmas event, and we would really like to hear your thoughts!

* The Mods' Choice will be determined by MTTs three mods, and the Readers Choice and Mods choice will be different entries.

* We will be in contact with the authors via email about the participation gift and the prizes for the 2 winners.

This month, MoreThanThat is holding a Halloween writing competition. We are asking writers to submit their Halloween themed stories to MTT during the month of October. Then at the start of November, we will have a vote for the Reader's Choice and Moderator's Choice. In addition to internet praise and jellybeans, these two winners will also receive prizes for realsies!

What kind of stories can I enter?

Your story should be at least 500 words long

Your story should be new and never published

Multi-chapter is ok but it needs to be completed and submitted by 11:59pm PDT on October 31

Any genre and rating is allowed and can feature any Office character, it only needs to be Halloween themed. (though fair warning, we mods do love our JAM)

In addition, all participants will get a Jim/Pam card or sticker of their choice featuring Ladama's work and a participant banner on their entries.

*MoreThanThat reserves the right to modify prizes depending on response and interest

Are there guidelines for reviewing the contest entries?

Contest entries will be published and viewable to everyone as authors submit them, therefore readers *can* add reviews and leave jellybeans and we want readers to feel free to do so. However readers should not leave overly biased or campaign-like reviews on contest entries.

Kinds of Language that's fine on the contest entries:

I really enjoyed this story!

You're a great author!

I liked how you did [x.y.z]

If I could suggest anything it would be [kind, constructive criticism]

Bias/Campaigning Language that will be modified or deleted:

This is hands down the BEST contest entry

You have my vote for best entry, no question!

Everyone better vote for you! If you don't win, something's wrong!

This entry sucks but people are going to vote for it anyway (<---stuff like this we would consider harassing and would take disciplinary action against the member)

Admins will be closely monitoring reviews left on entries during the contest/voting period and will edit or possibly delete reviews that come across as blatantly bias or as campaigning for or against a particular entry.

Contest FAQs

How will the winners be selected? – We will have two winners, a reader’s choice and a moderator’s choice. Reader’s choice will be decided by a vote from registered readers (full voting details and voting forms will be posted on November 1), while the mods will deliberate among themselves on their choice.

Can I win both the Reader’s Choice and the Moderator’s Choice? – Two different stories by two different writers will be selected.

Can I submit more than one story? – You certainly can, but know that we are asking people to select their favorite story, not favorite writer, so you may end up splitting your own vote. Also an author can only win one prize, they cannot win both the Reader’s and Mod’s choices.

How "Halloweeny" does the story need to be? – As little or as much as you want, Halloween or Halloween elements just needs to be worked in in some way. It can be an AU with some supernatural themes, it can be a full on suspense, or it can be just a regular day that happens to be Halloween (i.e. the Season 2 Halloween episode).

I have an old story that could fit this contest, can I submit that story? – Stories should be new and never published to MTT or other fanfic sites.

My story is not quite 500 words long – The 500 word minimum is more a guideline than a firm rule, what we most want from entries is for them to be well-written, so if they don’t quite clear the 500 word threshold, that’s okay, submit it anyway!

Is there a maximum word count limit on entries?– We don't have a max word count, we want you to do your thing! That said, entries do need to be complete and submitted by the end of the month and when voting comes around we want our readers to be able to easily read all the entries to make an informed decision, so we suggest thinking more one-shot than novel.

Do I have to share my address with you to receive prizes? – Yes, winners will need to provide an address for prizes to be sent to, and participants interested in receiving their small gift will also provide an address. We will not save addresses or use it for anything besides sending prizes.

Will you be able to send prizes to my country? – This contest is open to any writer anywhere in the world and we are prepared to send prizes to a variety of countries. But if we are unable or if shipping is cost-prohibitive we will work with winners to find an equivalent arrangement.

Other Questions?- If you still have questions, please contact us via the contact form, or email us at MTT.fanfic@gmail.com

This past July marked 12 years of MTT online, a feat that wouldn't be possible without the generosity of our members! Our annual FunRaiser is going on now to get the costs of the archive covered until next July, so if you have enjoyed MTT please consider contributing (we'll even send you a gift if you donate $10+)!

As a lead up to our 12th birthday, we mods got together to bring you 31 days of fanfic recommendations. Covering a different topic every day, we made lists that hopefully went beyond the more popular stories and authors. We hope with these lists you get to discover some new favorites! Check it out at our blog:

Whether you don't come around to the archive too often, or like getting handy lists delivered to your inbox, we invite you to sign up to our Monthly Fic Digest. On the first of every month, you will get an email with all the new and updated fics the previous month. You can sign up for this monthly digest (as well as other emails from MTT) on the Newsletter Sign-Up page

Challenges Challenge

Wanna write a story but stuck on ideas? That's what Challenges are good for! And if you answer one of the prompts we have specifically selected for the quarterly Challenges Challenge you will get a special banner on your story! Here are the new challenges for the 3rd quarter of 2018:

Deleted Scenes: Write a story expanding on one of the many classic deleted scenes

Spy Who Pranked Me: Write an AU where Jim is a secret agent and Pam gets caught up in the plot(or vice versa!)

What we're working on

At MTT we're always working to bring you a better site and new fun content. At the moment we are working on: a Jim and Pam info page (feel free to look at what we have so far here), a writing contest for the fall, new site themes, better Favorite options and more! We always value your feedback and hearing what you'd like to see at MTT so please feel free to contact us !

Hey MTTers! Today marks the anniversary of the airing of Casino Night, which is really the reason MTT even exists so feels like a good thing to acknowledge.

(still the prettiest, saddest scene!)

We're just over a 3rd of the way into 2018 and so far it's been pretty great! The Most Recent section has had a nice steady flow of new stories, Our new Author Of The Month selection criteria is ensuring all sorts of authors are getting the acknowledgement they deserve and we have a great community feel going thanks to the shoutbox, social media accounts and our Tuesday Splitting Up Together chats (which we learned today will continue into the next TV season!)

New Challenges!

To keep the new stories flowing, we have a "Challenges Challenge" where every few months we feature some story prompts that will hopefully inspire. And we give a little banner to anyone who answers the challenge! This round we are featuring:

Hospital JAM: Put Jim or Pam in the hospital and get the hurt/comfort going!

Sister, Sister: Write a story where Penny Beesly or Larisa Halpert plays a central role.

Plus writers are encouraged to look at the past challenges as well and see if they inspire!

Speaking of Larisa Halpert...

Though we never did actually meet Larisa, she was and still a commonly recurring character in stories and she was technically confirmed in canon as Jim's sister so we decided it's high time for her to get her own character tag! You can add Larisa to your list of characters by editing your story and selecting her in the character field.

Pam and Jim's wedding site - Now on MTT!

At MTT part of our goal is to help preserve the fandom for new and old fans to enjoy. One little bit of fandom was Pam & Jim's wedding site, which was a fun little NBC promotion and sadly could only be found with the Wayback Machine - until now! We dug through the internet archive and brought as much of the content as we could to our blog, so if you're dying to know what fun stuff there is to do Niagara, Pam's wedding cost-saving tips or what Meredith said in their guestbook, check it out here: Pam & Jim's Wedding Site

Supporting MTT

While we are a couple months out from our hosting bill being due, we do welcome contributions any time to help us get a head start on next year's costs. You can find out more about how to contribute on our Donate page.

What we're working on

Here are just a few things in the works at MTT: a Jim/Pam info page (hopefully reducing your dunderpedia visits!), a month of fic recommendation, and another writing challenge for prizes! So make sure to stop by often (or sign up for our newsletter for email updates!)

For the last year and a half or so we've been selecting an author of the month every month to showcase their stories. We have mostly focused on selecting authors who were less well-known and perhaps overlooked back in the day. However now that we are more active, we will be changing up who and how we select AOTMs. We are still going to follow the basic guideline of selecting authors with at least 5 stories, but we will now follow this basic pattern:

Month 1: a recently active author Month 2: an all-time popular authorMonth 3: a lesser known or over-looked author

and repeat! We also want readers input on who they think should be the next AOTm, which you can so via the contact form.

March JAM Madness

Just for fun we are running March JAM Madness at our instagram. We're pitting some of the top JAMtastic episodes against each other and seeing who earns the title of top JAMisode! Voting takes place via our story on instagram .

There's still time take part in this quarter's challenges! We encourage you to write a Vegas story, a behind-the-scenes of Michael's movie Threat Level Midnight and many others! We also area always interesting in new ideas for challenges. Please click here for more info

And that about does it! Remember check out all these features and contact us with any problems or suggestions!

After spending the 2nd half of 2016 doing a lot of clean-up and rebuilding, the archive got to reap the rewards in 2017 with lots of new stories and a revitalized community! We saw our first writing contest, a new fun rating system in the form of jellybeans, new themes, a shoutbox and trivia chats, and social media accounts with several thousand followers! Here are some archive stats from 2017:

Over 1.5 millions hits! (30% more than 2016)

120 new members (twice as many as 2016, and the most new members since 2010!)

Happy Autumn everyone! This October, we are introducing a new feature: the Challenges Challenge!

How it works: Every 3 months we will introduce a handful of challenges, which are story prompts or themes. We'll have a combo of admin choices, an old challenge that went unanswered and maybe a Reader's challenge as well! Write a story for one of the challenges and your story will earn a little banner. But really this is just meant to be a way to keep writer's inspired and keep new stories coming! You can find more info and how to enter on this page: Challenges Challenge

Here are the challenges for Q4 2017:

Bad Date (JAM style): Jim and Pam have a terrible first date (but he still buys a ring a week later)

"Nice Morning, too" : What did Jim & Pam get up to that inspired the talking head at the start of S9E21 "Living The Dream" *wink wink*

Life In Austin: Write a story about Pam and Jim's life in the Texas capital

If you've been on MTT for a while, you have probably accumulated a decent Favorites list. And you have probably been annoyed at the lack of versatility the favorites list offered especially when browsing.

Though we have a ways to go before we'll be truly happy with favorites, we have taken the first big step: you can now browse and filter your favorite stories. Like when you browse elsewhere on the site, you can select certain characters, genres, categories, etc and you can order by title, length, most recent, and more!

You will find links to this browseable list in your account and under the Browse menu. If you want to see your comments on a story or edit/remove from favorites, you still have to go through the old "Manage Favorite" option but we hope to get these streamlined into the browseable manage favorites list soon!

ETA: We have also improved the page after you save favorites so you can easily return to where you were browsing.

In other news: a sincere thank you to everyone who has contributed during our Hosting FunRaiser! We are only $10 from our goal to be completely covered for the year. There's still time to contribute and get us to our goal and get a headstart on next year!

Next, we know navigating the site is a little intimidating for newbie (and perhaps for older members also) so we are working on some quick guides (complete with photos) on things like tips for getting the most of our this site, explaining features, how to add images, etc. We want to hear from members what they think could use a visual quick guide. We also want to hear in general what you'd like to see on the site and what could use improvement, so please comment here or in an email send us your thoughts.

If you haven't checked out the shoutbox yet, we put it up for members to say hey and interact so please don't be shy: ask questions, share interesting Office tidbits, say hi to your fellow MTTers, whatever you'd like! (also we may try to organize a live chat soon, so please keep an eye on the shoutbox)

Not totally News, but just wanted to say: people have been utilizing the new jellybean feature which is great, we worked hard on it and want to see it used. That said, we want to emphasis that reviews are truly the fuel of fanfiction, they are the easiest and best way to show an author their work is being read and appreciated, they are absolutely free, and they are great little motivators for authors. Even if you don't feel like you have anything particularly interesting to say, we can tell you for a fact authors love getting (positive) reviews.

If you can believe it, July 9th marks MTT's 11th birthday! An all new MTT admin team took over last year with the goal of bringing the site up to date, adding some new features and get activity going again. And with new themes, the Download ePub feature, our Valentine's day contest, new social media accounts, and the just-launched jellybean system, we think 2016-17 was a success!

Of course, today being our birthday also means that MTT's annual hosting bill is due this month. So if you would like to give us something, you can give the awesome gift of a contribution to the site! A contribution of $10+ will earn you a small JAM gift, but every dollar is sincerely appreciated! You can read the full details of our annual funraiser here. FUNRAISER EXTENDED THROUGH AUGUST!

If you can't give monetarily but still want to make a contribution, you can do so by submitting new stories, leaving reviews and jellybeans, following and liking our social media, interacting with fellow fans, making recommendation to friends, etc. Anything to keep MTT the great place for PB&J and Office fans that it is is your gift to us every day!

For 11 years the archive has used star ratings. It's simple in theory, give a story a rating of 1 to 5 stars, but in practice it really hasn't been that useful. One author may feel 3 stars is a solid rating, another may feel it's an insult. One reader may reserve 5 stars for only their absolute favorites, another may give 5 stars to everything they review. One story may only have one 5-star rating, another may have 20, and they are listed the same.

So today we bid farewell to the star rating system and say hello to something we think will be more straight forward and useful: jellybeans! Much like a "like" or a "kudos", readers can leave a jellybean as a small token on stories they enjoyed.

After deciding to switch to jellybeans, the next conundrum of course was deciding how beans will be distributed. If a user is allowed to only leave one per story, the newer stories have no chance of catching up with older ones. If one per chapter is allowed then that puts one-shots and short stories at a disadvantage. Taking all this into consideration, we have decided that users can leave up to 5 jellybeans on a story. So if you like a story, give it a jellybean, if you really like it, give it a couple more, if you absolutely love it, take the time to give it 5!

Though we always want to encourage reviews, you can leave jellybeans without reviewing. You can click on the jellybean count of a story to see who has left jellybeans. Hopefully this goes without saying but there should be no fighting, begging or complaining about the jellybeans. It's meant to be a simple way for readers to give and writer to receive feedback.

We now return you to your reading, don't forget to start leaving those jellybean!

In our recent survey, many members expressed a desire for way to interact with each other beyond reviews and such. Though we had set up a community of sorts on the blog the consensus seemed to be it was cumbersome and difficult to navigate. We agree as so we're heading a back to basics and relauching the MTT forums. They have a more traditional forum look but should be easier to get around and highly mobile friendly!

Right now, registration is by invite only and we prefer if you already registered here on the archives. If you'd like to join please let us know through the contact form or in an email to MTT.fanfic@gmail.com.

If you are one of the couple dozen people who registered on the previous community you are already registered and your email/username and password for login should be the same!

If I'm registered on the archive, why do I have to register on the forum too?They are two different software systems and sadly we don't have the technical know-how to link them. But you should be able to pick your name username and even same password if you'd like.

~Thank you for your votes! Look for the formal announcement of the winners very shortly!~

Thanks all the writers who submitted to our first Valentine's Day Writing Contest, now it's time to decide a winner!

We have six entries which you can find here: Valentine's Day 2017. They're mostly pretty short so we request you read all the entries before making your decision. Once you have decided on your favorite, please vote here. Voting is open until Sunday March 19th, 11:59pm PDT

What to know before voting:

Make sure you are registered on the archive, votes from non-members will not be counted

Every member gets ONE vote, no double registering to cast multiple votes!

If you are one the writers, you may vote but no voting for yourself

The Readers and Mods choices will be announced the week of March 20th

Some additional things

* On the voting form, we ask you to match your favorite entries with it's simple story summary. The 6 stories are all pretty unique so if you read the story, you should know which is which. Vote that don't match the story with the correct summary won't count.

* The voting form has an optional contest feedback form, and we would really like to hear your thoughts on this contest and potential future contests!

* The Mods' Choice will be determined by MTTs three mods, and the Readers Choice and Mods choice will be different entries.

* We will be in contact with the authors via email about the participation gift and the prizes for the 2 winners.

* Any questions, concerns, comments can be directed to MTT.fanfic@gmail.com

This year MoreThanThat is holding a Valentine's Day writing competition. We are asking writers to submit their Valentine's Day related stories to MTT during the month of February. Then the first week of March, we will have a vote for the Reader's Choice and Moderator's Choice. In addition to internet praise and kudos, these two winners will also receive prizes for realsies!

What kind of stories can I enter?

Your story should be at least 500 words long.

Your story should be new and never published

Multi-chapter is ok but it needs to be completed by the morning of March 8th, 2017 (<-- new deadline!)

Any genre, rating and pairing is fine as long as the story is Valentine's Day themed. (though fair warning, we mods do love our JAM ;-) )

And all stories should adhere to the regular MTT submission guidelines.

How Do I Enter My Story?

If you don't already have an account on the MTT fanfic archive, sign up for one .

Log in, go to My Account > Add New Story and submit your story. We ask that you include your entry is for the 2017 Valentine's Day competition in the story summary to make sure it's categorized appropriately

If you are a new writer, your story will be held for a quick review to make sure formatting is okay, as long as there are no major issues you should see your story published shortly.

In addition, all participants will get a Jim/Pam card or sticker of their choice featuring Ladama's work.

*MoreThanThat reserves the right to modify prizes depending on response and interest

Contest FAQs

How will the winners be selected? – We will have two winners, a reader’s choice and a moderator’s choice. More details are forthcoming but the Reader’s choice will be decided by a vote from registered readers, while the mods will deliberate amongst themselves on their choice.

Can I win both the Reader’s Choice and the Moderator’s Choice? – Two different stories by two different writers will be selected.

Can I submit more than one story? – You certainly can, but know that we are asking people to select their favorite story, not favorite writer, so you may end up splitting your own vote. Also an author can only win one prize, they cannot win both the Reader’s and Mod’s choices.

I have an old story that fits this contest, can I submit that story? – Stories should be new and never published to MTT or other fanfic sites.

My story is not quite 500 words long – The 500 word minimum is more a guideline than a firm rule, what we most want from entries is for them to be well-written, so if they don’t clear the 500 word threshold, that’s okay, submit it anyway!

Do I have to share my address with you to receive prizes? – Short answer is yes, winners will need to provide an address that Amazon and Redbubble can deliver to, and participants will need to provide an address we can send a USPS letter to. We will not save address or use it for anything besides sending prizes.

Will you be able to send prizes to my country? – This contest is open to any writer anywhere in the world and we are prepared to send prizes to a variety of countries. But if we are unable or if shipping is cost-prohibitive we will work with winners to find an equivalent arrangement.

Other Questions?- If you still have questions, please contact us via the contact form, the forum post , or emailing us at MTT.fanfic@gmail.com

Also you can help us our by helping us promote! Send your writer friends to mttjustonce.net and/or share this graphic on your social media!

Hello everyone! The Holidays are upon us and to commemorate we have changed our default theme to Teapot Holiday. This theme is a throwback to the the classic "Christmas Party" episode with the teal teapot of love (and Jim's secret card). It's a little funky on mobile, so you may want to go to a more familiar theme the skin change drop down is in the top below the menu or at the bottom.

Also, this months Author of the Month has a wide variety of fics for you to enjoy all month. PuffingNoise. You can click here for more info and all past AOTM.

Check out the main page soon for more Christmas themes posts including fic recs and a ranking of the Office Holiday episodes!

It's a new month which means a new Author of the Month. November's AotM is Peskipiksi who has written 8 stories for MTT and returned after many years with a new story back in May! You can learn more about the Author of the Month series at our new message boards.

Also it's November which means Nanowrimo is underway! If you're taking part this year, come join us on the message boards ! You can also go to the Nano boards and talk Office or just say hey to other MTTers. One of our mods is *hoping* to write a JAM story for Nanowrimo and plans on posting their progress so make sure to check back soon!

Happy October! We have a few fun updates and other things to announce just in time for spooky season!

Our October Author of the Month is Deedldee, who has written 21 stories for MTT. You can learn more about the Author of the Month series at our new message board.

For many writers, this month also means gearing up for Nanowrimo in November! If you are an MTTer taking part in the 30 day novel writing challenge, come post on the new forums and let's make a little MTT Nano group!

We are always striving to make improvements and add features to the archive. This month we have launched a Save as EPUB feature, which lets you save any story to your favorite eReader to be read whenever! We are also working on adding better ways to navigate the archive with some new Sort features. Now when you browse, you can order stories by word count, read count, review count and published date.

That's about it for our September report! Don't forget to leave reviews on any stories you like (writers love reviews!) or to check out our new forums .

We here at MoreThanThat are thrilled to be launching the new "Save As EPUB" feature for our members! You can now save any story on MoreThanThat as an EPUB document and read it any time on your favorite eReader device!

Just click the EPUB Icon on any story to download an EPUB eBook. You do need to be registered and logged in to download EPUBs, but we promise registration is quick and easy (twss).

You can read more about this new feature here , including detailed instructions for a wide variety of devices! Happy Reading!